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Definition
difficult (requiring hard work)- spent many laborious hours on the project
laborious = difficult
- who still sat laboriously struggling for breathFranz Kafka -- Metamorphosis
- "You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor.O. Henry -- The Gift of the Magi
- He moved slowly, the heaviness in his chest seeming to seep into his limbs, making every step laborious and painful.Kass Morgan -- The 100
- He was digging in his garden–digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- Unredeemed by shared tenderness, the time was spent in laborious gropings, pullings, yankings and jerkings.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- The course lay up the ascent, and still continued hazardous and laborious.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
- That involves typing in a phonetic version of each Chinese word and having it converted to the Chinese character, a very laborious process.Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
- He was stark naked and the mud was cold, so he pulled himself up and laboriously climbed the bank.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- After my laborious conquest, I've distanced myself a little from the situation, but you mustn't think my love has cooled.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Long and laborious study will be needed to acquire a competent knowledge of them.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- His colleague smiled, but then rose with a sigh, laboriously put on his jacket, and signed to Elinor to follow him.Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart
- As for Passepartout, his face was as red as the sun's disc when it sets in the mist, and he laboriously inhaled the biting air.Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
- He walked with her back to the chateau; the curfew had tolled for the laborious villagers of Fleurieres, and the street was unlighted and empty.Henry James -- The American
- I design to secrete it in the wall of the chimney, where I have slowly and laboriously made a place of concealment for it.Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- He clambered laboriously onto the railing and dropped down onto the other side of it.Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
- From time to time they get up, unbuckling themselves laboriously, and hobble to the back of the plane, to smoke cigarettes and line up for the washroom.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- Scarlett was sitting downstairs, laboriously copying faces from the manga she had been reading onto scrap paper.Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book
- Haji Ali, slowed by age, knelt laboriously to touch the simple stone placed above the spot where Sakina had been buried facing Mecca.Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
- So on Friday of Valentine's week, four of the girls and I laboriously fluttered and putted in choppy waters toward the landing in Bluffton.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
laboriously = with difficulty (requiring hard work)
laboriously = with difficulty